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Urban encroachment in ecologically sensitive areas: drivers, impediments and consequences
Buildings & Cities, 2022 The drivers and consequences of unregulated urban expansion processes in Accra, Ghana, are examined together with the associated encroachment upon ecologically sensitive areas in the city’s rapidly growing periphery.
Manja Hoppe Andreasen +4 more
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A Comparison of Satellite-Based Estimates of Urban Agglomeration Size for the Accra Area
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Data on the extension of urban areas are important for analyzing growth dynamics and to support the planning of transport and service provision. Satellite-based remote sensing has proven extremely useful, especially in cities that experience fast spatial
Lasse Møller-Jensen +3 more
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How Does Water Behave? Unstable Milieu and Stable Agencements in Dakar’s Flooded Suburbs
Urban Planning, 2022 In the suburbs of Dakar, matter as a flux is not a metaphor anymore, but a concrete process of city fluidification, disintegration, or solidification.
Romain Leclercq
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A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2020 Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the ...
Jemima Asabea Anderson +5 more
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Journal of Global Business Insights, 2020 One of the most visible impacts of hotels on the environment is waste. Waste generated by hotels tends to have adverse impacts on the environment. There are, therefore, concerns that the proliferation of small hotels in Accra, the capital city of Ghana ...
Ishmael Mensah
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An evolutionary study of production of electricity in Ghana (1900–1960s)
Історія науки і техніки, 2020 The literature on the history of electricity production have studied the evolution of electricity in both developed and developing countries and its impact on their economies. Some have laid foundations upon which other works are carried out.
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi +4 more
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Imagining Theological Education for ACCRA as a Globalising African City
Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2020 Increasing migration has created many unfavourable conditions in the city of Accra, posing big challenges to both the local and national development agenda.
Kpobi, David Nii Anum
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Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, 2021 BACKGROUND Apart from increasing the risk of tuberculosis (TB), diabetes may be associated with more severe disease and lower rates of sputum conversion among TB patients.
Ernest Yorke +7 more
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Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased.
P. Kim Streatfield +58 more
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Understanding repair and maintenance in networked water supply in Accra and Dar es Salaam
Water Alternatives, 2022 One of the main challenges undermining water supply in African cities is the rapid decay of networked infrastructures. Urban water managers, policymakers and researchers, however, have paid little attention to repair and maintenance or to their ...
Lazarus Jambadu +2 more
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